Hi I am Veronica. My given name is Shuqi Sheng and my mother language is Chinese. I learned traditional techniques to produce artworks such as sketching and oil painting, but I am not that familiar with conceptual art and visual art language. I don’t usually consider every image as words that convey ideas and analyze its meaning.
I found VISA210 interesting because contemporary art is an ambiguous term. I agree with the statement that imagination is the very important thing that we human left. Everything visible can be empty but imagination won’t.
This is my second year in UBC. I have taken VISA180 and I’d love to investigate more in contemporary culture. The weekly chart looks really interesting and I look forward to future lectures.
It is interesting to see how all students, in this class, are expected to post their research, homework and notes on an online blog instead of documenting class materials on sketchbooks and handing them in at the end of term. It makes me feel like everything in this class is related to digital world. When we had the lecture last week, there was a digital screen displaying all the class content. It delivers information in a far more efficient way than a normal white board.
Although the weekly chart listed some events that we might have seen in news, such as the planet selfie, i think that the visual way of how all the information and captions are displayed and emphasized in bold format is fascinating.
1. PLANET SELFIE: We’re Now Posting A Staggering 1.8 Billion Photos Every Day. This article was posted in may 2014 and the number is suspected to increase because it is in year 2018 now.
2. 2.5 billions smartphone users: Today marks a momentous milestone for all things digital, with the new Digital in 2017 Global Overview report from We Are Social and Hootsuite revealing that more than half of the world’s population now uses the internet.
• More than half the world now uses a smartphone;
• Almost two-thirds of the world’s population now has a mobile phone;
• More than half of the world’s web traffic now comes from mobile phones;
• More than half of all mobile connections around the world are now ‘broadband’;
• More than one in five of the world’s population shopped online in the past 30 days.
3. Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence displayed by machines, in contrast with the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals. In computer science AI research is defined as the study of “intelligent agents”: any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal.[1] Colloquially, the term “artificial intelligence” is applied when a machine mimics “cognitive” functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as “learning” and “problem solving”. (Wikipedia)
The idea that computers have some amount of “intelligence” is not new, says Haupter, pointing as far back as 1950 when computer pioneer Alan Turing asked whether machines can think. “So it has taken nearly 70 years for the right combination of factors to come together to move AI from concept to an increasingly ubiquitous reality,” says Haupter.
4. Virtual world population: 50 million by 2011
Within 4 years, Gartner Chief of Research Steve Prentice reports ‘80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 companies) will have a ‘second life’, but not necessarily in Second Life’ by 2011′
From Wagner James Au at GigaOM my source on this post:
The statement was meant, says Prentice, as‘a wake-up call to the CIO and CEOS out there that this is not a game, just sort of messing around. It’s interesting [and] we think it’s going to big.’ By ‘active’, Gartner is referring to ‘people who are heavyweight Net users.’ And by their definition, all of them are broadband users. ‘They’re my kids, to be honest, back from school, right onto MySpace.’ That in mind, the estimate is actually that 50-60 million Net users will participate in a virtual world by 2011.
5. Automation and the future of employment
technological advances and their tendency to make traditional jobs obsolete
Reid Hoffman: If you look at most of the automation, it comes down to man–machine combinations.
Tim O’Reilly: If you look at this idea that it’s a combination of man and machine, and you look at some of the examples that have really kind of surprised us in just how they’ve taken off—like Uber, like the Apple store—they are actually cases where humans are made more powerful by this background. And that creates a better customer experience, which creates new demand.
——Technology vs. Humanity
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Einstein).
Some says technology is threatening humanity because for example, when we try to capture moments using mobile phone, we are unable to live in the moment and miss things happening right in front of us.
Some says technology serves humanity. Others say that technology will replace humanity.
——The nature of technical images and their role in contemporary culture and life
“It is understandable why so many have been so jealous of the image’s influence. Sight is our most powerful sense, much more dominant in translating experience than taste, touch, or hearing. And images appeal to emotion — often viscerally so. They claim our attention without uttering a word. They can persuade, repel, or charm us. They can be absorbed instantly and easily by anyone who can see. They seem to speak for themselves.
Today, anyone with a digital camera and a personal computer can produce and alter an image. As a result, the power of the image has been diluted in one sense, but strengthened in another. It has been diluted by the ubiquity of images and the many populist technologies (like inexpensive cameras and picture-editing software) that give almost everyone the power to create, distort, and transmit images. But it has been strengthened by the gradual capitulation of the printed word to pictures, particularly moving pictures — the ceding of text to image, which might be likened not to a defeated political candidate ceding to his opponent, but to an articulate person being rendered mute, forced to communicate via gesture and expression rather than language.”
——possibilities offered by contemporary images
mankind’s movement from an oral-based culture to a written culture, and later to a printed one
In the age of the image, we may become too easily accustomed to verisimilar rather than true things, preferring appearance to reality and in the process rejecting the demands of discipline and patience that true things often require of us if we are to understand their meaning and describe it with personal experience
The image I chose is a photograph taken by myself when I was in Yokohama, Japan. It was the side of a building standing right in front of the Yokohama Art Gallery. The way how nature and concrete iron building combined together is very interesting. And I started to explore more into architecture and its relationship with environment from then on.
Compare to images, I feel more related to words and texts because they deliver information and emotions in a more simple and efficient way. So initially I wanted to choose screenshots of chat history with my friends. Words are also visual images as we look at them and understand them using vision signal. Then I realize although images do not affect me as much as languages and words do, it do have impact on me and when talking about things that shape my present life, I feel related to certain images. For example that architecture in Yokohama raised my interests and encouraged me to apply for UBC environmental design.
Hi I am Veronica. My given name is Shuqi Sheng and my mother language is Chinese. I learned traditional techniques to produce artworks such as sketching and oil painting, but I am not that familiar with conceptual art and visual art language. I don’t usually consider every image as words that convey ideas and analyze its meaning.
I found VISA210 interesting because contemporary art is an ambiguous term. I agree with the statement that imagination is the very important thing that we human left. Everything visible can be empty but imagination won’t.
This is my second year in UBC. I have taken VISA180 and I’d love to investigate more in contemporary culture. The weekly chart looks really interesting and I look forward to future lectures.
It is interesting to see how all students, in this class, are expected to post their research, homework and notes on an online blog instead of documenting class materials on sketchbooks and handing them in at the end of term. It makes me feel like everything in this class is related to digital world. When we had the lecture last week, there was a digital screen displaying all the class content. It delivers information in a far more efficient way than a normal white board.
Although the weekly chart listed some events that we might have seen in news, such as the planet selfie, i think that the visual way of how all the information and captions are displayed and emphasized in bold format is fascinating.
1. PLANET SELFIE: We’re Now Posting A Staggering 1.8 Billion Photos Every Day. This article was posted in may 2014 and the number is suspected to increase because it is in year 2018 now.
2. 2.5 billions smartphone users: Today marks a momentous milestone for all things digital, with the new Digital in 2017 Global Overview report from We Are Social and Hootsuite revealing that more than half of the world’s population now uses the internet.
• More than half the world now uses a smartphone;
• Almost two-thirds of the world’s population now has a mobile phone;
• More than half of the world’s web traffic now comes from mobile phones;
• More than half of all mobile connections around the world are now ‘broadband’;
• More than one in five of the world’s population shopped online in the past 30 days.
3. Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence displayed by machines, in contrast with the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals. In computer science AI research is defined as the study of “intelligent agents”: any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal.[1] Colloquially, the term “artificial intelligence” is applied when a machine mimics “cognitive” functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as “learning” and “problem solving”. (Wikipedia)
The idea that computers have some amount of “intelligence” is not new, says Haupter, pointing as far back as 1950 when computer pioneer Alan Turing asked whether machines can think. “So it has taken nearly 70 years for the right combination of factors to come together to move AI from concept to an increasingly ubiquitous reality,” says Haupter.
4. Virtual world population: 50 million by 2011
Within 4 years, Gartner Chief of Research Steve Prentice reports ‘80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 companies) will have a ‘second life’, but not necessarily in Second Life’ by 2011′
From Wagner James Au at GigaOM my source on this post:
The statement was meant, says Prentice, as‘a wake-up call to the CIO and CEOS out there that this is not a game, just sort of messing around. It’s interesting [and] we think it’s going to big.’ By ‘active’, Gartner is referring to ‘people who are heavyweight Net users.’ And by their definition, all of them are broadband users. ‘They’re my kids, to be honest, back from school, right onto MySpace.’ That in mind, the estimate is actually that 50-60 million Net users will participate in a virtual world by 2011.
5. Automation and the future of employment
technological advances and their tendency to make traditional jobs obsolete
Reid Hoffman: If you look at most of the automation, it comes down to man–machine combinations.
Tim O’Reilly: If you look at this idea that it’s a combination of man and machine, and you look at some of the examples that have really kind of surprised us in just how they’ve taken off—like Uber, like the Apple store—they are actually cases where humans are made more powerful by this background. And that creates a better customer experience, which creates new demand.
——Technology vs. Humanity
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Einstein).
Some says technology is threatening humanity because for example, when we try to capture moments using mobile phone, we are unable to live in the moment and miss things happening right in front of us.
Some says technology serves humanity. Others say that technology will replace humanity.
——The nature of technical images and their role in contemporary culture and life
“It is understandable why so many have been so jealous of the image’s influence. Sight is our most powerful sense, much more dominant in translating experience than taste, touch, or hearing. And images appeal to emotion — often viscerally so. They claim our attention without uttering a word. They can persuade, repel, or charm us. They can be absorbed instantly and easily by anyone who can see. They seem to speak for themselves.
Today, anyone with a digital camera and a personal computer can produce and alter an image. As a result, the power of the image has been diluted in one sense, but strengthened in another. It has been diluted by the ubiquity of images and the many populist technologies (like inexpensive cameras and picture-editing software) that give almost everyone the power to create, distort, and transmit images. But it has been strengthened by the gradual capitulation of the printed word to pictures, particularly moving pictures — the ceding of text to image, which might be likened not to a defeated political candidate ceding to his opponent, but to an articulate person being rendered mute, forced to communicate via gesture and expression rather than language.”
——possibilities offered by contemporary images
mankind’s movement from an oral-based culture to a written culture, and later to a printed one
In the age of the image, we may become too easily accustomed to verisimilar rather than true things, preferring appearance to reality and in the process rejecting the demands of discipline and patience that true things often require of us if we are to understand their meaning and describe it with personal experience
The image I chose is a photograph taken by myself when I was in Yokohama, Japan. It was the side of a building standing right in front of the Yokohama Art Gallery. The way how nature and concrete iron building combined together is very interesting. And I started to explore more into architecture and its relationship with environment from then on.
Compare to images, I feel more related to words and texts because they deliver information and emotions in a more simple and efficient way. So initially I wanted to choose screenshots of chat history with my friends. Words are also visual images as we look at them and understand them using vision signal. Then I realize although images do not affect me as much as languages and words do, it do have impact on me and when talking about things that shape my present life, I feel related to certain images. For example that architecture in Yokohama raised my interests and encouraged me to apply for UBC environmental design.
Week2 challenge
https://newhive.com/verokeli/a-claim-being-identified
https://imgur.com/a/W2LCH